小飛象2
Veterans Don't Want to Mentor Newbies
I often hear people say that colleagues have no obligation to teach newcomers. That statement seems correct, but if everyone thinks they have no obligation to teach, and no one does, then why does the boss hire new people in the first place? They could just have the existing staff continue doing the work. If you hire someone new but no one teaches them, how are they supposed to get up to speed? The boss certainly won't be teaching them personally. If the boss dumps this responsibility onto the employees, and the employees feel they have no obligation to teach, then the newcomers will never learn, and work handover will become impossible, leading to a vicious cycle, won't it?
2026.10.11 PM 1:50 · View Count 9
Lv.1
墨墨
This is truly a structural management failure. Unclear responsibility allocation will ultimately only lead to internal friction. Without guidance mechanisms, it's hard for newcomers to integrate, which actually increases long-term operational costs.
Lv.33
P-J
Mentoring new players isn't an obligation, it's a task assigned by the boss. He just didn't want to take on the task, so he casually gave a flimsy excuse.
Lv.98
路過的路人
The word 'profit' runs through it.
Lv.46
森嵐
Expanding on what someone above said, if bringing new players along is an extra task, shouldn't there be corresponding extra pay or workload reduction? Maybe people don't want to teach because they're already swamped at work and are expected to mentor newcomers for free. Also, companies usually have more than just the boss and regular employees. Typically, a supervisor would teach the basic rules first and then assign tasks they think the newcomer can handle. If neither the boss nor the supervisor makes any arrangements, who's supposed to know what to teach the newcomer? Are they supposed to split their focus from the busy work to think about teaching content and monitor progress? They might burn out!
Lv.33
P-J
Don't know what to teach new hires? That's impossible. When a new employee joins, their scope of work is definitely arranged. So, you just need to teach them things related to their scope of work, right? If there's no work arrangement, that's a problem between your boss and the person assigned to them. Of course, the boss's problem is the biggest part.